US Patent Issued to BASF PLANT SCIENCE on Feb. 3 for "Increase in corn transformation efficacy by the N-terminus of a TALE" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,331, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH (Ludwigshafen, Germany).

"Increase in corn transformation efficacy by the N-terminus of a TALE" was invented by Thaquoris Pitt (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Sean McAdams (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Minesh Patel (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Mary F. Dubois (Snow Camp, N.C.) and Leendert W. Neuteboom (Youngsville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is in the field of molecular biology and relates to improved methods for plant transformation and to polynucleotides and polypeptides for achieving the same."

The patent was filed on Oct. 9,...